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Well, that would certainly be unique for a place like that. Let's see if it actually gets built.

If there was a prediction market with a bet referencing whether this is built or not in the next 10 years, I would bet heavily against it. This is a $2-3B building, in a metropolitan area of 1.5M people. Finding financing is going to be tricky.

Class A office towers are selling for fractions of their former valuations ($50/sqft) in the metro area I live in which has 2.5x as many people as the OKC area.

If it is built, I think it’ll end up like the Palice of the Parliament/People’s Palace in Bucharest: massively oversized and 70% empty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament

To clarify "$2-3B" nominal estimated cost means an expected $20-30B final cost

How do you figure? E.g. One World Trade Center had a nominal cost of $3B and a final cost of $3.9B so why would this run 20x-30x more over estimate?

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